Quotes about Motivation
If you can't fly then run. If you can't run, then walk. And, if you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't, then crawl. But by all means, keep moving
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
As T. S. Eliot has said: "The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Spinoza says that if a stone which has been projected through the air, had consciousness, it would believe that it was moving of its own free will. I add this only, that the stone would be right. The impulse given it is for the stone what the motive is for me, and what in the case of the stone appears as cohesion, gravitation, rigidity, is in its inner nature the same as that which I recognise in myself as will, and what the stone also, if knowledge were given to it, would recognise as will.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
A man can surely do what he wills to do, but he cannot determine what he wills.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid...
— Audre Lorde
Anger is loaded with information and energy.
— Audre Lorde
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
— Ayn Rand
I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the use of seeing it, and working, and burning oneself for an impossible vision? A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry
— Ayn Rand
A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry.
— Ayn Rand
I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money
— Ayn Rand